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Hacker News (Dec 2019)
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The Ultimate Acorn Archimedes talk [video]
142 points • comment • dec 28, 2019
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PracticalAI 2.0: A New Platform to Learn ML Using Python, Keras and Tensorflow
142 points • comment • dec 07, 2019
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The programmer behind the THERAC-25 Fiasco was never found
141 points • comment • dec 02, 2019
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Luxury hotel guests keep stealing mattresses
141 points • comment • dec 12, 2019
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The Art of Dying
141 points • comment • dec 21, 2019
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Introduction to Bert
141 points • comment • dec 02, 2019
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Getting a scientific prize for open-source software
141 points • comment • dec 01, 2019
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Unicode Is Awesome
141 points • comment • dec 02, 2019
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Physicists Have Identified a Metal That Conducts Electricity But Not Heat (2017)
141 points • comment • dec 01, 2019
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Show HN: Clayoven – a minimalist website generator for math, code, and articles
141 points • comment • dec 15, 2019
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Drugs that tamp down inflammation in the brain could slow cognitive decline
141 points • comment • dec 07, 2019
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Modern garbage collection: Part 2
141 points • comment • dec 12, 2019
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Natural Language Processing Best Practices and Examples
141 points • comment • dec 05, 2019
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Progressive React
141 points • comment • dec 20, 2019
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Principles of the American Cargo Cult (2003)
141 points • comment • dec 29, 2019
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I don’t know if whoever flagged the typos in my eBook thought they were helping
140 points • comment • dec 24, 2019
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Go Micro – A Go microservices development framework
140 points • comment • dec 25, 2019
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Ruby Lazy Enumerators
140 points • comment • dec 28, 2019
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CapOneMe – a vulnerable cloud environment to demonstrate the Capital One breach
139 points • comment • dec 27, 2019
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Red Hat Cloud Forms migrating to IBM Cloud Pak
139 points • comment • dec 18, 2019
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Cancer cells die in microgravity conditions – study
139 points • comment • dec 05, 2019
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Local Privilege Escalation in OpenBSD's Dynamic Loader
139 points • comment • dec 12, 2019
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How to write better game libraries
139 points • comment • dec 08, 2019
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Freedom of expression is at a ten-year low globally, study says
139 points • comment • dec 06, 2019
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French executives convicted in the suicides of 35 of their workers
139 points • comment • dec 22, 2019
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Build Your Own WebAssembly Compiler
138 points • comment • dec 27, 2019
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TikTok curbed reach for people with disabilities
138 points • comment • dec 02, 2019
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What does your car know about you? We hacked a Chevy to find out
138 points • comment • dec 17, 2019
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Epsilon: The JDK’s Do-Nothing Garbage Collector
138 points • comment • dec 08, 2019
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California is about to allow former felons to serve on juries
138 points • comment • dec 08, 2019
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A new cycle-stepped 6502 CPU emulator
138 points • comment • dec 15, 2019
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Ask HN: Any Pebble Alternatives?
138 points • comment • dec 29, 2019
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LibrePCB 0.1.3 released, now with DRC
138 points • comment • dec 01, 2019
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Writing a Simple Garbage Collector in C
138 points • comment • dec 15, 2019
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Bootstrapping Understanding: An Introduction to Reverse Engineering
138 points • comment • dec 06, 2019
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How William Gibson Keeps His Science Fiction Real
138 points • comment • dec 09, 2019
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Developers join call for GitHub to cancel its ICE contract
137 points • comment • dec 04, 2019
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Show HN: Tiny, fast, and free API to geolocate IP addresses
137 points • comment • dec 09, 2019
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Developing a Statically Typed Programming Language (2017)
137 points • comment • dec 08, 2019
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From SaaS idea validation in 1 day to 150+ Beta signups
137 points • comment • dec 10, 2019
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The World of Statecharts
136 points • comment • dec 23, 2019
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Robots in Finance Could Wipe Out Some of Its Highest-Paying Jobs
136 points • comment • dec 07, 2019
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Eris – A better way to handle, trace, and log errors in Go
136 points • comment • dec 25, 2019
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New membrane unlocks energy from chemical difference between fresh and saltwater
136 points • comment • dec 06, 2019
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German university issues 38k passwords by hand after malware infection
136 points • comment • dec 18, 2019
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Firefox 71
136 points • comment • dec 03, 2019
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2020: Things You Should Read to Become a Better Human and Developer
136 points • comment • dec 10, 2019
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Airplanes and Accounting Games: The Coming Boeing Collapse?
136 points • comment • dec 19, 2019
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4.2 Kiloyear Event
136 points • comment • dec 16, 2019
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Publish – A static site generator for Swift developers
136 points • comment • dec 30, 2019
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First mathematical proof for a key law of turbulence in fluid mechanics
136 points • comment • dec 12, 2019
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In Memoriam of Charles “Chuck” Peddle
135 points • comment • dec 20, 2019
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WoW streamer hires YouTubers who leeched off his stream to run official channel
135 points • comment • dec 12, 2019
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Kramnik and AlphaZero: How to Rethink Chess
135 points • comment • dec 14, 2019
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Teen Marijuana Vaping Soars, Displacing Other Habits
135 points • comment • dec 18, 2019
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Facebook fail to convince lawmakers it needs to track your location at all times
135 points • comment • dec 18, 2019
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Rust implementations of abstract algebraic structures
135 points • comment • dec 07, 2019
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How to Buy a Private Jet
135 points • comment • dec 09, 2019
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Amazon SageMaker Autopilot
135 points • comment • dec 03, 2019
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Show HN: LastingPaper – A Desktop App for Your E-Ink Kindle
135 points • comment • dec 13, 2019
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ISO week date
135 points • comment • dec 26, 2019
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Soviet Santa
134 points • comment • dec 25, 2019
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The Road to Valhalla
134 points • comment • dec 06, 2019
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Here’s the story of a game I made in 1994, when I was 12
134 points • comment • dec 26, 2019
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The Art of Bargaining, Positional vs. Interest-Based Negotiation
134 points • comment • dec 11, 2019
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Kinematics of Reverse Angle Parking
134 points • comment • dec 27, 2019
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Lawmakers Warn Against Private Equity Firm's .Org Takeover
134 points • comment • dec 26, 2019
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Text QR
134 points • comment • dec 11, 2019
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Maps Reveal the Hidden Structures of ‘Choose Your Own Adventure’ Books (2017)
134 points • comment • dec 22, 2019
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Better Intuition for Information Theory
133 points • comment • dec 02, 2019
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Serverless Development with Serverless Framework
133 points • comment • dec 09, 2019
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The dark side of electronic waste recycling
133 points • comment • dec 16, 2019
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Using Makefile(s) for Go
133 points • comment • dec 08, 2019
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Open letter concerning Facebook's proposals to apply end-to-end encryption
133 points • comment • dec 23, 2019
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Arm Shows Backside Power Delivery as Path to Further Moore’s Law
132 points • comment • dec 20, 2019
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Explore Magic Cap, a Smartphone OS from a Decade Before the iPhone
132 points • comment • dec 04, 2019
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Show HN: HNTerm – Browse Hacker News in the Terminal
132 points • comment • dec 15, 2019
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Tesla's stock just hit a record $420
132 points • comment • dec 23, 2019
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A Lonely Plea: ‘Anybody Need a Grandma for Christmas?’
132 points • comment • dec 21, 2019
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Play AI Dungeon 2. Become a Dragon. Eat the Moon
132 points • comment • dec 16, 2019
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A Billion Surveillance Cameras Forecast to Be Watching Within Two Years
132 points • comment • dec 05, 2019
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Dgsh – Directed Graph Shell
132 points • comment • dec 04, 2019
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Weasel: A Stealthy DNS Beacon
132 points • comment • dec 04, 2019
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An introduction to machine learning through polynomial regression
132 points • comment • dec 25, 2019
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An Illustrated First-Person Guide to the CIA’s Torture Program
132 points • comment • dec 05, 2019
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Amazon Launches Managed Cassandra Service
132 points • comment • dec 03, 2019
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The Cycle from ‘Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance’ Comes to Smithsonian
132 points • comment • dec 21, 2019
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Boeing Starliner updates: Spacecraft flies into wrong orbit, jeopardizing test
132 points • comment • dec 20, 2019
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Formatting Is Unreasonably Expensive for Embedded Rust
132 points • comment • dec 09, 2019
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Normal 1: what normal maps are and how they work
131 points • comment • dec 21, 2019
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Turkey's block on Wikipedia violates rights, court rules
131 points • comment • dec 27, 2019
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Repo Blowup Was Fueled by Big Banks and Hedge Funds, BIS Says
131 points • comment • dec 09, 2019
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On June 11th, the Strand was designated a landmark
131 points • comment • dec 27, 2019
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The Joys of Unix Keyboards
130 points • comment • dec 30, 2019
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Generalized Knights
130 points • comment • dec 30, 2019
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Tree-sitter: new incremental parsing system for programming tools (2018) [video]
130 points • comment • dec 01, 2019
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How does Apple get away with this UI?
130 points • comment • dec 10, 2019
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The internet doesn't care about multiplayer games
129 points • comment • dec 09, 2019
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Crispr-Resistant Viruses Build ‘Safe Rooms’ to Shield Genomes from Enzymes
129 points • comment • dec 24, 2019
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Arduino programmable air, pneumatics kit
129 points • comment • dec 29, 2019